Joe Bonomo is an American essayist and music writer.

Life

Bonomo was born and raised in

Wheaton, Maryland Wheaton is a census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, situated north of Washington, D.C. and northwest of downtown Silver Spring. Wheaton takes its name from Frank Wheaton (1833–1903), a career officer in the Unit ...

. He graduated from

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

(BA) and

Ohio University Ohio University is a public research university in Athens, Ohio. The first university chartered by an Act of Congress and the first to be chartered in Ohio, the university was chartered in 1787 by the Congress of the Confederation and subseq ...

(MA and PhD). His books include ''No Place I Would Rather Be: Roger Angell and a Life in Baseball Writing,'' ''Field Recordings from the Inside'' (essays),''This Must Be Where My Obsession with Infinity Began'' (essays), ''AC/DC's Highway to Hell'' (33 Series), ''Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found'', ''Installations'' (National Poetry Series), ''Sweat: The Story of The Fleshtones, America’s Garage Band'', and the interviews collection ''Conversations with Greil Marcus'' (Literary Conversations Series). ''Lost and Found'' and ''Sweat'' have been translated into French and published in France, the latter as ''The Fleshtones: Histoire d'un Groupe de Garage Américain''. He has published personal essays widely since the mid-1990s in ''Creative Nonfiction,'' ''The Normal School,'' ''Fourth Genre,'' ''Brevity,'' ''Defunct,'' ''Hotel Amerika,'' ''Diagram'', ''Free Verse'', ''Georgia Review'', ''Gulf Coast'', ''Laurel Review'', ''Quarter After Eight'', ''River Teeth'', ''Seneca Review'', ''Sentence'', and elsewhere, and in the anthologies ''Brief Encounters: An Anthology of Short Nonfiction,'' ''How to Write About Music: Excerpts from the 33 1/3 Series, Magazines, Books and Blogs with Advice from Industry-Leading Writers,'' and ''The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice''. In 2012 Bonomo was named the music columnist for ''The Normal School'' literary magazine, for which he writes two essays annually. Since 1995 he has taught writing creative nonfiction and literature at

Northern Illinois University Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a public research university in DeKalb, Illinois. It was founded as Northern Illinois State Normal School on May 22, 1895, by Illinois Governor John P. Altgeld as part of an expansion of the state's system ...

. He lives with his wife,

Amy Newman Amy Newman is translator, American poet, and professor. She is a Presidential Research Professor at Northern Illinois University. Life She graduated with a Ph.D. in English Literature and Language from Ohio University. She is the author of five ...

, a professor, translator, and poet, in DeKalb, Illinois.

Books

* ''Sweat: The Story of the Fleshtones, America's Garage Band'' (Bloomsbury, 2007) * ''Installations'' (National Poetry Series, Penguin Books, 2008) * ''Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found'' (Bloomsbury, 2009) * ''AC/DC's Highway to Hell'' (33 Series, Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2010) * ''Conversations with Greil Marcus'' (Literary Conversations Series, University Press of Mississippi, 2012) * ''This Must Be Where My Obsession with Infinity Began'', essays (Orphan Press, 2013) * ''Field Recordings from the Inside'', essays (Soft Skull Press, 2017) * ''No Place I Would Rather Be: Roger Angell and a Life in Baseball Writing'' (University of Nebraska Press, 2019)

Awards

* Illinois Arts Council Fellowships * Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction (Northern Illinois University) *

National Poetry Series The National Poetry Series is an American literary awards program. Every year since 1979, the National Poetry Series has sponsored the publication of five books of poetry. Manuscripts are solicited through an annual open competition, judged and cho ...

* Orphan Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award

References

External links

* Official website, '
No Such Thing As Was
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Joe Bonomo on Twitter
* Joe Bonomo's essa
"Live Nude Essay!" in ''Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts'' (24.1)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bonomo, Joe Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American non-fiction writers Writers from Maryland University of Maryland, College Park alumni Ohio University alumni Northern Illinois University faculty People from Wheaton, Maryland